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I highly recommend this class. The material is generally interesting and absolutely carries over to real life. Sherri Moore is a fantastic, and fun, lecturer and knows the material very well. This class requires very little work: go to every class, take good notes, study 30 minutes before the weekly quiz. Other than that, you will spend a few hours making a cheat sheet for the exams but that is it. If you go to class and put in the minimal effort to learn the material before exams, this class is not hard to get an A in.
Overrated. I wouldn’t take this class if you don’t have to. Sherri Moore is a wealth of knowledge, but her lectures take a great deal of effort. All notes must be handwritten and are very hard to keep up with, especially because of how much you will have to write each class. Weekly quizzes are extremely meticulous and do require you to study for them. Tests are also VERY detail oriented. I took this class because of all the great past recommendations, but things seemed much stricter and unnecessarily difficult this semester compared to what I heard about previous semesters.
As everyone below me has mentioned and as anyone at this university will tell you, Sherri Moore is incredible. She is so funny and very wise and will be so real and open with her students. Definitely get to know Sherri Moore whether you take the class or not. However, I would agree with some of the reviews below me in that the class itself is a little overrated. Unless you are interested in law, you are likely to be pretty bored in the course. While Sherri tries to give interesting examples, some of the content is just extremely dry. Also, the class itself moves very fast and you have to hand-write notes extremely quickly (you are not allowed to have laptops out in class), and your hand will likely hurt by the end of class. It's also really difficult to catch every detail that she says because she moves so quickly and can be kind of unorganized. With that, I would also say that the exams are pretty tricky and detail-oriented. You HAVE to know all the small details and little exceptions to the laws, and how to apply them to real-world examples. The final exam was also one of the hardest exams I have taken at UVA. This is not an easy A class. If you study, you will probably get an A-. Don't think that you don't have to try to get an A in here. There are also weekly quizzes, which can be kind of annoying to study for and can be pretty specific. The class itself just was not my favorite, and I did not enjoy it nearly as much as everyone told me that I would. I would say that you should really question how much you are interested in the law before you take the class. But get to know Sherri Moore! She rocks!
Everyone says this is a top course at UVA, and for good reason. Sherri Moore is a phenomenal professor, in the sense that she connects with students in a friendly manner, but no one would ever cross her and respects her highly. My strategy for this class was to take good notes in class, then rewrite them in a separate notebook on Wednesday nights (Thursday quizzes). Before the test, make or find quizlets, review scenarios, and make a legible cheat sheet. I probably sunk 2 hours a week, plus an extra 5-6 the week of exams, and pulled an A- no sweat. The A is tough because it is a 95, but doable. Great class, not too hard, and the material is fascinating and very relevant; you learn so much about the legal system.
What can I say that hasn't been said? Sherri is an amazing teacher and lawyer and will have your back as such; she is willing to take student questions on real law concepts, and has been a champion in helping me understand valuable rights I have. I will say the structure of the lectures, in my opinion was slightly disappointing; I didn't love having my head down taking notes the entire class start to finish. And that is what you need to do as the tests are a lot of basic material and you can use cheat sheets. Overall, valuable content, incredible teacher, and a decent class structure make this a very good class.
Every time you take an exam for professor Moore you'll have to fight the urge to scream "she never taught us about this" because that's exactly what happens. She goes through material so quickly that it's overwhelming and of course all notes must be handwritten or you'll be kicked out of class. Every exam the primary problem I had was not knowing what on earth the question was talking about. Sometimes exams will have like five questions about something she spent 2.5 seconds discussing in class. It's awful. Sometimes exams will test you on things that she didn't even write on the board or in the class outline. Obviously, don't take this class for fun (because it's not). The material is interesting but the way you get assessed on it is so irritating. again, DONT take this class unless you have to.
This course is amazing. I absolutely adore Sherri Moore. She is an amazing person and a great teacher. I think everyone should take this course because it is knowledge that we all should have. It is extremely relevant and useful for the real world. She moves through material quickly, but she makes it very relevant and uses examples that help for a more detailed understanding. There is no homework, just weekly quizzes on content. The exams can be pretty tricky, but she allows handwritten cheat sheets which are very helpful since there is a lot of content. I would absolutely recommend this course to everyone.
As everyone else says, she really is great!! Super entertaining, knowledgable and understanding. Course content is very interesting and relatable to the real world. Definitely a useful course that everyone should try to take. Exams can be a bit tricky, but relatively fair and if you put time into making the cheat sheets you can definitely do well on them. Only issue is the high cutoff for an A. Highly recommend taking this class with Professor Moore.
I absolutely adored Professor Moore! She is super sweet and approachable, and is also extremely knowledgable about the course matter. She articulates concepts clearly and provides numerous examples to help facilitate our understanding of certain ideas or applications of law. She also provides ample opportunities for students to pose questions.
Professor Moore's exams can be tricky, however, and include questions about details that were covered only briefly in class. That being said, it is imperative for you to approach either Professor Moore or one of the TAs if you did not catch a certain detail in lecture or missed a class in order to get complete notes for you to do well on the exams and weekly quizzes.
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